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Owner of elite Chicago restaurant invites Clemson Tigers to dinner, trumping White House fast food meal

CHICAGO - Alinea co-owner Nick Kokonas has invited the Clemson Tigers to dinner in Chicago.

The invitation follows President Donald Trump serving the college football team Monday a White House dinner of fast food burgers in paper packaging, pizza in boxes, salad in plastic clamshells, fries dispensed in tiny presidential paper cups with sauce packets splayed out on silver serving trays, all of it under lit candelabras.

Kokonas wrote

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